Every generation has felt that they have seen the signs of wars and rumors of wars in their time,

nervously reporting to one another that this must be the end of the world.

But what if these things are merely data points on a much larger chart?

Hey guys, welcome to the American Campfire Revival.

I got a great campfire going tonight with the American flag.

We're working our way through the book, Born to Be Brave.

And tonight we're going to talk about the power of perspective.

It changes everything.

Take the stock market.

Someone could show you a graph of an economic downturn

over the last few weeks or months,

and you might panic, thinking, oh no,

we've got to sell everything.

The bottom's about to fall out.

We could lose it all, sell, sell, sell, sell.

But an experienced financial advisor would likely remind you that market corrections are normal

and that the wise perspective is to zoom out and look at the long-term trends. And if you were to zoom out and look at a hundred-year graph,

you would find that there's one overwhelming perspective.

It's all steady growth up and to the right.

There's aberrations along the way,

but those are mere data points in a much larger trend. Even the Great Depression

was an aberration of a larger trend of steady growth up and to the right. That is why skilled

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